May 2009: Comfort To Go

Susan McCulley Age: 44 Occupation: Certified Black Belt Nia Instructor at ACAC Teaching The Nia Technique (a workout fusing dance, martial arts, and yoga) since 2000, Susan leads retreats to exotic locales such as Peru and Costa Rica. She says her favorite trips are the ones she shares with her husband Frank: “I often tell […]

May 2009: Caught You Looking Sweet

Hailey Frances Occupation: Good Morning Charlottesville news anchor on CBS 19 Where we spotted her: On the Downtown Mall Style sense: Hailey rises at 3:30am every day before delivering the news. She designs her look herself, combining old and new, classic and seasonal. Here, she is wearing a vintage skirt from the JABA shop Twice […]

May 2009: The great outdoors

Sweet ride Kimberly Blick wears a Johnny Was floral top from Spring Street ($187), a Cosabella Sol bikini top from Derriere de Soie ($108), AG frayed shorts from Eloise ($172), Toms flats from EG ($42), and a leaf bangle from Cha Cha’s ($12).                       Perfect […]

Twenty years of local news and arts in the spotlight

We’re ready to turn our volume knobs to the max for week No. 19  of our highly selective tour through the past 20 years of local news and arts in C-VILLE. This week, a pair of locally spawned bands that every music fan should be proud to call our own (even if we call ’em […]

Twenty years of local news and arts in the spotlight

And we’re now 18 weeks into our highly selective tour through the past 20 years of local news and arts in C-VILLE. This week, familiar faces and familiar structures. Some 12 years ago, we reported on what seemed a likely outcome for the four storefronts known collectively now as the Wachovia buildings: demolition. If only! […]

Gallery Listings

Galleries Art Upstairs Gallery 112 W. Main St., Suite 3 (in York Place). Tuesday-Thursday and Saturday, noon-5pm; Friday, 1-9pm; Sunday, 1-4pm. 923-3900. www.artupstairsgallery. com. Through May 31: “Watercolor Retrospective: 1960s to Present,” by Peter Almonte. Bozart Gallery 211 W. Main St., Wednesday-Thursday, 3-9pm; Friday-Saturday, noon-9pm; Sunday, 1-4pm. 296-3919. www.bozartgallery.com. Through May 31: Recent works by […]

Corrections to the April 28 issue

Due to a reporting error in last week’s cover story, we mistakenly stated that a former Country Vintner employee directs J.W. Sieg’s wine import and distribution business. Derek Robinson, formerly of the Country Vintner, is a wine consultant for J.W. Sieg, but the business is under the direction of J.W. Sieg Vice President Smith Williams. […]

Exhibits in town this week

Art Upstairs Gallery 112 W. Main St., Suite 3 (in York Place). Tuesday-Thursday and Saturday, noon-5pm; Friday, 1-9pm; Sunday, 1-4pm. 923-3900. www.artupstairsgallery.com. Through May 31: “Watercolor Retrospective: 1960s to Present,” by Peter Almonte. Bozart Gallery 211 W. Main St., Wednesday-Thursday, 3-9pm; Friday-Saturday, noon-9pm; Sunday, 1-4pm. 296-3919. www.bozartgallery.com. Through May 31: Recent works by Julia Kindred. […]

When it comes to power in Charlottesville, who's at the top?

JUMP TO RESULTS: • FOOD • DEVELOPMENT • UVA • GOVERNMENT • ARTS pow·er Pronunciation: pau’(    )r   Function: noun   1 a  (1): ability to act or produce an effect  (2): ability to get extra-base hits Merriam-Webster’s first definition of “power,” as above, certainly lined up with the standards of C-VILLE writers when we set out […]